Legal claims defining the scope of protection, as filed with the USPTO.
1. A method for providing information regarding demographic composition of a commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries, the method comprising: receiving information indicating presence of one or more mobile devices at a given commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries, a given mobile device of the one or more mobile devices associated with a given individual of one or more individuals; identifying one or more attributes of the one or more individuals with which the one or more mobile devices are associated; generating demographic composition information comprising one or more summaries of attributes of at least two or more individuals at the commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries using the one or more attributes of the at least two or more individuals with which the one or more mobile devices are associated; receiving information indicating absence of one or more of the one or more mobile devices from the commercial establishment, wherein receiving information indicating absence comprises receiving geographic coordinates of a mobile device and determining that the mobile device is not at the commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries by determining that the geographic coordinates associated with the mobile device are outside of the preexisting boundaries of the commercial establishment; updating the demographic composition information comprising the one or more summaries of the attributes of at least two or more individuals at the commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries, said updating comprising excluding from the one or more summaries of the attributes of at least two or more individuals at the commercial establishment at least a portion of the one or more attributes of the one or more individuals associated with the one or more mobile devices for which information indicating absence from the commercial establishment was received; retrieving a profile of a user proximately located and external to the commercial establishment; identifying, based on the retrieved profile of the user, one or more attributes desired by the user; determining whether a match exists between the one or more attributes desired by the user and the current demographic composition of the commercial establishment; and upon determining a match exists, generating a notification for delivery to the user proximately located and external to the commercial establishment.
2. The method of claim 1 wherein receiving information indicating presence of a mobile device at a given commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries comprises receiving geographic coordinates of a mobile device and determining that the geographic coordinates associated with the one or more mobile devices are within the preexisting boundaries of the commercial establishment.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying one or more attributes of the one or more individuals with which the one or more mobile devices are associated comprises identifying at least two of relationship status, age, sex, religion, hobbies, occupation, race, national origin and sexual orientation.
4. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying one or more attributes of the one or more individuals with which the one or more mobile devices are associated comprises identifying one or more anonymous attributes.
5. A method for generating demographic composition information comprising one or more summaries of attributes of at least two or more individuals at a commercial establishment, the method comprising: receiving first information indicating presence of one or more mobile devices at a given commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries using geographic coordinates associated with the one or more mobile devices by determining that the geographic coordinates associated with the one or more mobile devices are within the preexisting boundaries of the commercial establishment, a given mobile device of the one or more mobile devices associated with a given individual of one or more individuals; updating one or more data stores with said first information; receiving second information indicating absence of one or more of the one or mobile devices from the commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries, wherein receiving information indicating absence comprises receiving geographic coordinates of a mobile device and determining that the mobile device is not at the commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries by determining that the geographic coordinates associated with the mobile device are outside of the preexisting boundaries of the commercial establishment using geographic coordinates associated with the one or more mobile devices by determining that the geographic coordinates associated with the one or more mobile devices are outside of the preexisting boundaries of the commercial establishment; updating the one or more data stores with said second information; and generating current demographic composition information comprising one or more summaries of the attributes of at least two or more individuals at the commercial establishment using one or more attributes associated with the one or more individuals with which the one or more mobile devices present at the commercial establishment are associated; retrieving a profile of a user proximately located and external to the commercial establishment; identifying, based on the retrieved profile of the user, one or more attributes desired by the user; determining whether a match exists between the one or more attributes desired by the user and the current demographic composition of the commercial establishment; and upon determining a match exists, generating a notification for delivery to the user proximately located and external to the commercial establishment.
6. The method of claim 5 wherein receiving first information indicating presence of one or more mobile devices at a given commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries comprises comparing geographic coordinates of one or more mobile devices with geographic coordinates of one or more commercial establishment having preexisting boundaries and determining that the geographic coordinates associated with the one or more mobile devices are within the preexisting boundaries of the commercial establishment.
7. The method of claim 5 wherein updating the one or more data stores with said second information comprises deleting, from the one or more data stores, at least a portion of the first information.
8. The method of claim 5 further comprising identifying, for a given mobile device, a time of entry and a time of exit with respect to the commercial establishment, using said first information and said second information, respectively.
9. The method of claim 5 wherein the one or more attributes comprise at least two or more of relationship status, age, sex, religion, hobbies, race, national origin and sexual orientation.
10. The method of claim 5 wherein the notification comprises a notification delivered to the user's mobile device.
11. The method of claim 5 wherein the notification comprises an SMS message identifying the commercial establishment.
12. The method of claim 5 wherein the notification comprises displaying the commercial establishment on a map.
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May 12, 2015
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